TY - JOUR T1 - The Effect of Stress on Selective (Focused) Visual Attention according to Openness to Experience TT - تاثیر استرس بر توجه انتخابی (متمرکز) بینایی با نگاه به عامل گشودگی نسبت به تجربه (انعطاف پذیری)* JF - rph JO - rph VL - 3 IS - 1 UR - http://rph.khu.ac.ir/article-1-98-en.html Y1 - 2009 SP - 15 EP - 28 KW - Visual Selective Attention KW - Visual Focused Attention KW - stress KW - Openness to experience N2 - The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of stress on visual selective (focused) attention according to openness to experience. Sixty 21-36 year-old male students (M= 26.7) were selected and placed in 3 groups (Original, O & Control) using random multi-stage sampling. The Original and O groups’ subjects administered the cognitive stressor tasks and then their selective (focused) visual attention was measured in term of errors in counting and errors in classification. In control group only selective (focused) visual attention was assessed. Neuropsychological variables were also assessed as control variables. The Original group subjects showed significantly more scores in both counting and classification errors (p M3 ER -